Unlike numbers of progressives
I know, I don't have any faith that there's a therapy (pills, talk,
any combination thereof) that can change child rapists and
molesters to the point where we may trust them to be out here
among our kid… Read full post »

Needless to say, my column the
other day about the inanity of Boston Archdiocese spokesman Daniel
Avila's claim that gay people exist because (and only because) of
the Devil's in utero machinations was not the only piece
that led to red-faced Cardinals from here to Rom… Read full post »

You weren't likely around in
the years just prior and subsequent to Jesus' murder at Jerusalem.
The deal is that for years before and after, under the thumb of the
most oppressive Western regime… Read full post »

Several months back I noted
here that wildly unpopular Florida Governor, Rick Scott--his
positives have hovered for half a year around 29%--proposed, and
his equally troglodyte state legislature passed, a bill
requiring welfare recipients and applicants to… Read full post »

Last week I posted
several pieces about this scourge. While I detailed and lamented
the pain and death bullying causes,
I offered only two ongoing reasons for hope, the
Trevor Project and the new New Jersey anti-bullying… Read full post »

On the way back from being chucked from China all those years back,
Tamar and I stopped over in Honolulu and taught for a year. I
recall 1987 for a great deal: I recall our debate whether or
not to live in leis the rest of… Read full post »

Overthe
past two days I've offered a dark window into the lives
and deaths of two gay teens, two Jamies, one in upper New York
State, one in Ottawa. They took their lives as a result of
relentless bullying. Jamie Rodemeyer and Jamie Hubley needn't have
died.

While the argument against
the death penalty that has spoken most keenly to me is
that juries of all racial and ethnic composition and in all regions
are far more disposed to deal death to defendants whose
victimsare white, regardlessof the
race/ethnicity o… Read full post »

Charles Blow's column in Saturday's
New York Times is a poignant memory of a time he was
bullied as a child. While I was, too, by a neighbor a few years my
elder, I also had two pals from very early on who were not only
popular but weren't about… Read full post »

My acquaintance, Lois Bromfield, is an American
stand-up commedian, now living in Berlin. She's also the film
director and star of the short classic, "Sorority Girls From Hell"
(see link, below--you may just die laughing.)

Her newest creation, a web-based series about to take flight, is
the gro… Read full post »

I'm pleased that the
Obama Administration had the foresight to think through the legal
implications of targeting and killing Anwar al-Awlaki, the
American-born Yemini terrorist; I'm pleased, too, that the
man's gone. While he was an American citizen, he… Read full post »

The venerable mouthpiece of the
British Association of Dietary Supplementers, 'The Archives of
Daily Pills and Anvils' has released a study this week that both
women and men, if not most genders, may well find alarming. After
intergenerational testing of dietary supple… Read full post »